I only applied to two places, UCD and RCSI, so its partly my fault. I was accepted to the interview because of the excellent marks in high school and flew from Vancouver to New York with my family. Stayed in the Sheraton hotel bla bla. Before the interview I spent a lot of time preparing and researching for the interview, and thought i was going to get in after reading SND forums.
However at the interview i think 1 question killed me. I got really stumped on the question "Why dont you go to college instead of RCSI?". We talked about it for HALF the interview. Why I would be TOO YOUNG getting MD at 22 years and college was good for me ... the experience and maturity and all that crap. Obviously I thought off 100 reasons on the airplane flight back what I could have said but it was too late then.
And anyway I thought I might still have gotten into RCSI due to my very good marks. But I was rejected 2 weeks later...I am super pissed b/c RCSI was my dream med school.